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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
CURIOUS ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON.
A Strange Meteorological Occurrence in
venezueIa-An Officials Account.

Strange Meteorological Occurrence In
venezueIa-An oficiaI's Account.
The following brief account of recent
strange meteorological occurrence may be of
interest to your readers as an addition to the
list of electrical eccentricities:
During the night of the 24th of October
last, which was rainy and tempestuous q
family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut
few leagues from Maracaibo, were awakened
by a loud humming noise and vivid daz-
zling light, which brilliantly illuminated the
interior of the house.
The occupants, completely terror stricken,
and believing, as they relate, that the end of
the world 11ad come, threw themselves on
their knees and commenced TO pray, but their
devotions were almost Immediately inter-
rupted by violent vomitings, and extensive
swellings commenced to appear in the upper
part of their bodies, this being particularly
noticeable about the face and lips.
It is to be noted that the brilliant light was
not accompanied by sensation of heat, cl-
though there was smoky appearance and
peculiar smell
The next morning the swellings had SUBJ
sided, leaving upon the face and body largo
black blotches. No special pain was felt until
the ninth day, when the skin peeled off, and
UueSe DlOtCueS were lIallSlOTiueu lllUO NlfulcuG
raw sores.
The hair of the head fell off upon the side
which happened to be underneath when the
phenomenon occurred, TIE same side of the
body being, in all nine cases, the more seri-
ously injured.
The remarkable part Gf the occurrence Is
that the house was uiliniured, all doors and
windows being closed at the time.
No trace of lightning could afterward be
observed in any part of the building, and all
the sufferers unite in saying that there was
no detonation, but only the loud humming
already mentioned.
Another curious attendant circumstance is
that the trees around the house showed no
signs of injury until the ninth day. when
they suddenly withered, almost simultan-
eously with the development of the sores
upon the bodies of the occupants of the
house.
This is perhaps mere coincidence, but it
is remarkable that the same susceptibility
to electrical effects, with the same lapse Of
time, should be observed; in both animal and
vegetable organisms.
have visited the sufferers, who are now
in one Of tae hospitals of this city; and al
though their appearance is truly. horrible,
yet it is hoped that in no case will the in
juries prove fatal WARNER CowGILL-
q. s. Consulate, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Scientific American
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A Practical Joke.

They were laying new mains in the town
of B, and the work1nen had left an I'M
mense length of pipes lying end to end in the
principal street. tramp rolled one of the
pipes away from the rest and crept in to take
his nights rest. Here he was discovered by
a couple of students who were passing that
way in the small hours, and they rolled the
pipe with its lodger back into its place.
Imagine delight of tramp next morning at
having to crawl the distance of about a mile
before emerging into the fresh air.-Fliegendc
BlaAtter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
SOME FACTS Foa vEcErArsIANs.


Physical Condition of Flesh Eaters-F1esh
Eatipg Habits OF the Civilized World.
A vegetable diet is 400 or SEQ per cent cheap
er than the same amount of food derived from
the flesh sf animals.
The animals which for power of endurancs
and rapidity of motion. are valued for oui
service derive the whole of their strength and
nutriment from the vegetable kingdom; such
are the horse, the camel, tine elephant.
The physical condition of many hssh eaters
shows that the blood itself is loaded with inn
purities and in state of decomposition, and
that persons whose blood is in this impure
state arc liable, on very slight exposure, chill
ETC., to be attacked with dangerous Illness
That this condition is caused by flesh eating is
shown from the. fact that it is quickly changed
by the adoption of vegetable diet.
The flesh eating habits of the so-called civ
ilzed world render necessary the setting
apart Of a whole class of men for the per-
forinance of the degrading and brutalizing
oiSee of slaughtering animals for food.
Were it not for the large quantities of veg
etables consumed by flesh eaters disease would
ensue in every case. Vegetables supply tho
salts of the blood.
The peasantry of all nations abstain from
animal food-wholly or in part-from neces-
sity. Their vigor is greater than that of any
other class in every country.
Meat is the most costly of all foods, and
among civilized races the struggle for life
RACES to SO fearful an extent that human
beings shorten life by the effort they make to
save it.
The average age Of man should be a cent
ury. Tho majority of human beings die before
they are half as old. The longest lived ere
those who feed on cereals
Vegetarian diet, by contributing TO the
physical health of man, improves likewise his
moral condition, besides conducting in 10
small degree to the healthy development of
the intellectual faculties; since must nat
urally follow that by rendering the instru-
ment clear and pure, the acts Of life will be
materially elevated, also being identiied with
that which is clear and pure.-Laura G. Hol-
loway in Buddhists' Diet Book.n
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EreauencY of Left-Iandcdness.

DR.. Louis Jobert has published work on
the cause and frequency of left-handedness
No purely left-handed race has ever been
discovered, although there seems to be diff
ference in different tribes. Seventy per cent
Of the inhabitants of the Pendjab use the left
hand by preference, and the greater number
of the Hottentots and Bushmen of South
Africa also use the left hand in preference to
the right DR.. Mario, as a result of his study
of criminals, has discovered that from IA to %
per cent. of those who have been convicted of
crime were left-handed, the highest ratio
among people of ali classes being only nine in
the hundred. Medical Record.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

Albert C. Crocker, superintendent of wells
for the CHARTERS Gas company, was inspect
ing well five miles from Hickory, Pa, the
other evening, when there was an explosion
of gas and his left foot was blown off just
above the ankle, It was pitch dark, and no
lanterns are used about the well, so that
Crocl1er could not see how badly he was hurt.
He found that he could not walk, but he had
no idea that his foot was off He was assisted
into buggy and driven over the rough roads
to Hickory, when it was seen that his foot
was gone By this time he had lost almost
every drop of blood in his body, but he was
cool and pluckyi he sent g. man back for the
missing foot, ordered the doctors to bind up the
wound until Pittsburg surgeon arrived, and
while waiting for him quietly breathed his
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Farmers on the Pacific coast are busily en-
gaged in plowing.
A board of trade will shortly be established
in the city of chihuahua, Mexico.
Tho failure of Campanini's voice is said to
be owing to his indulgence in whisky and
seltzer
1t is alleged that parties in Oregon are can
ming dog salmon: which are worthless.
An Oregon paper mill gets paper stock and
jute butts from Calcutta for the manufacture
of MANILA paper.
The bachelors at Lrlo, Neb., have club,
and they wear safety pins for badges,
Some New Workers are preparing to estab-
lish coffee houses upon the model of those in
London.
Several influential Georgia citizens are max
ing an effort to have the legislature establish
a state labor bureau.
The Canadian papers predict an enormous
emigration of young men and tenant farmers
from the old country to the Dominion.
A farmer of New Hope, Cal, who planted
500 acres in potatoes has had such an abundant
crop that he calculates it will yield him
$4,000.
The Scotch shawl, instead Of overcoat, and
the Highland cap and streamers make fash
ionable costume worn by some New York
society young men.
The publishers of The Century Magazine
say that the sales Of that periodical have in
creased over $4,000 copies month since the
life of Lincoln was begun.
NJ, Galignani's home for broken down men
OF letters is nearly completed, and this leads
to the inquiry, Who wants to found a home
for American poetsa
A perfectly white buzzard Is the curiosity
of which Union Springs, Ala, boasts, and
the residents of that town are SO proud of it
that no one will shoot at it.
Jay Cooke, who is now 65 years old, is still
an active and energetic worker. He has an
Office in Philadelphia directly over the bank
which he conducted during the war.
Consumptives will think twice before seek
ing cure in the glorious climate of Cali
fornia, when they read that an S-year-old
child died at Vallejo few days ago of con-
sumption.
The North Star Toboggan club, Of Grand
Forks, D. T., claim to have the longest arti
fetal slide in the world. The trestle is 900
feet long, with fall of 20 feet in 100 for the
first 800 feet
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
A Mechanics Success,

Some years ago d mechanic near New
Haven was riding in a railway train and was
jolted and Jared as in the early days of
travel passengers were apt to be. He didn't
fret and fume as the other passengers did,
but began to study and experiment with a
view to making a spring that would reduce
the jolting to a minimum. He at last sue
ceeded, and his spring was adopted by every
railroad in the country. He is no longer a
poor young mechanic. His name is Carlos
French, and he has just been elected to con-
gress from the New Haven district
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
CONCERNING PROMINENT PEOPLE.
What the Newspapers Say of Noted ATer
ard Women.

What the Newspapers Say of Noted Men
and Women.
Charles Francis Adams leaves 81 ,250, 900.
The president is said to receive nearly 50,-
900 letters day.
Mme Patti is to be paid sl50,000 for her
six months singing.
Kate Field is giving elaborate dinner par
ties at the Arlington, in Washington.
Jesse Grant has been appointed superin-
tendent of the proposed Topolobampo rail-
road in Mexico.
Nine. Nevada Palmer has become promi-
nent figure in the Paris salons, and her re-
ceptions are the rage.
George Alfred Townsend after debating
for some hours to stenographer found out
that the fellow was insane.
Queen Victoria has ordered tea set of fifty
pieces of Burmese ware to be made for her
~ New Bedford, Mass, manufacturer.
Miss Catherine Impey, prominent leader
In the temperance cause in England, has been
advocating the consumption of hot lemonades
in Boston.
Jay Gould has bought pew in Presby
terian church at New York, and the para
graphists are making it the subject of most
of their squibs.
Mr.. Browning found that the palace in
Venice which he proposed TO purchase was
in hopelessly bad repair, and accordingly
backed out of the bargain.
Mime Boucicault, of the Bon Marche, Paris,
is the Peter Cooper of her time. She has
pensioned her employees royalty and distrib-
uted her bounty like princess.
Within the last twenty years Mr.. George
Washington Childs, A. NJ, of Philadelphia,
has presented over 200 big and valuable
Bibles to churches, schools and societies.
The resemblance between Attorney General
Garland and First Controller Durham is
said to be so great that they can be distin-
guished only by the different ways in which
they crease their hats
Gen. Hoke, now at the head of the new
Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroed, was
major general in the Confederate army at
q years of age. When the war was over he
wanted to go to New York and start life
anew. He had no suit but his old gray uni
form, and he had this dyed by an old servant,
while his mother covered the buttons with
pieces of an old bombazine dress.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

Everybody in England is raising money, in
fact, with view to an armed crash IN the
spring. Churchill is going to ask for big
supplementary vote of credit soon after par
Lament meets to increase the navy and forti-
fications of Alden, Cyprus and Port Hamil-
ton, and give the government full hand for
hiring cruisers if the necessity arises. There
will also be proposal to augment the Indian
army. 1t is not likely that there viii be
much opposition to these projects, since it Is
recognized by oil parties that stormy time
is ahead-Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
A Story Without End.

We are half mind to begin to write a
story that may never end, founded on facts
that are ever obvious Hippodromus, taking
his morning walk in the streets of Lucignano,
comes upon Theodectes, q laborer, and says
to him: "Why are you always at work!"
Theodectes answers; II am always at work
to get money to buy food to give me strength
to do more work that may get more money
to buy more food to get more strength to do
more work to get moro money to buy more
food to get more strength to do more work
to get more money to buy This is the be-
ginning Of the story without end, and the
facts on which it is founded, they are with
out end also-Winsted Conn., Press
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
Kalamazoo,s Celery business.

1t is reported that the celery raising busi-
ness, for which Kalamazoo has become
famous, is being largely overdone there
Every inch of available marsh land has been
converted into celery beds, and the search
for more land continues. 1t is not alone the
quantity raised that hurts the business, but
the quality, which is deteriorating on account
of the anxiety of the growers to get as many
stalks on the market as possible, There is
talk of organizing an association of growers
to limit the quantity and keep up the quality
New York Sun,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

There has been an unusual eruption of lit
tie, shivering pet dogs on our streets lately.
They are queer, nondescript figures, with big
eyes and sharp snouts, and look as.nuch like
rats as anything else. They come from old
and New Mexico, and, though there are
several varieties of them, hairy and hairless,
there is no particular variation in their fra
gility and utter uselessness. The fancicrs
assure me that they never live long In our
climate. This addition TO the list of interna-
tional pets is probably duo to the opening Of
railroad communication with Mexico. Tour
lists buy the little brutes as curiositios, and
residents ship them TO friends in the staSes as
souvenirs. Trumble in New York
News
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
A Curious Gun.

5 i. g. Nichols, general baggage agent Of tho
Missouri. Pacific Railway company, has in
his possession an old gun made Of copper, and,
from its looks, evidently made by some old
backswoods blacksmith, presented to him by
"Uncle Bob Gardner, of Chetopy, l. I. 1t
is perfect curiosity, and Mr.. Nichols claims
that it Is the first gun ever made on the six
shooter order. 1t has six chambers, the revo-
luton Of which is made by huge lever ex-
tending the entire length of the barrel, and
is shot by cap and ball. The offensive weapon
weighs forty pounds. Louis Republican.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

Anecdotes of the irrepressible Ccl Fair
man, who came to the cold northwest to
kindle the spirit of art among an mculti-
waited people, still abound. While in Paris
the colonel once displayed painting on one
of the prominent boulevards with the follow
ing inscription under it: "Rejected by the
jury at the academy. Now let the people
Judge" Paris laughed itself sad over the
very funny appeal-Pioncr Press Listener" ("
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

NJ. Pasteur was the recipient OF distin-
guished honors in his journey TO Bordighiera,
where he is to spend few weeks In recrea-
tion for the first time in nearly four years.
The mayor of Nice and the Bureau de la
Societe Medicale met him at the station and
presented him with a magnificent bouquet of
roses. The distinguished savant replied. not
in his own name, but in the name of his wife
and family, and declared that when he often
tagged from overwork his wife stimulated
him to pursue his scientific studies and work
out the problems he had in view.-Chicago
Tribune
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
wintering Quail.

a big barn at Cape Elizabeth, where they
propose wintering several hundred quail to
be liberated in different sections of the state
in the spring. The barn floor is covered with
sand and gravel, in which the birds dust to
keep free from virmin; trees are arranged
around the walls and upper part of the barn
to prevent the birds from killing themselves
by flying against the boards, and an attend
ant is to feed and water the birds daily.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
Mahogany in India.

Mahogany is being rapidly introduced into
every part of India where it promises to
thrive. The seeds sown have germinated re-
narkably well, a single pound planted in
greenhouses in the southern districts having
yielded between 5000 and 1900 plants 1t is
thought quite probable that the world may
some day look to India instead of to America
for its smahogany.-Boston Transcript
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
A Pupilist,s objection.

Some recent denunciations of pugilisn have
revived in print the speech John L. Sullivan
made when the authorities of New York city
interfered with bis joint debate with Paddy
Ryan: "The dudes lay each other up playing
football, and the women go out and watch
'em pound each other. They killed two jockeys
in one week at the Brighton Beach races; but
the man thai l licked the worst in Madison
Square garden was around drinking rum the
same evening as clipper as bull terrier. 1t
ain't square deal-Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
Heroic Dissipation,

Young men who do not belong to the idle
class and yet will go to balls and parties,
"turn in" directly after dinner, sleep TIL II,
then take "bawth," dress and appear on the
field of battle at 12 as fresh as daises. This is
what call heroic dissipation.-Cor Boston
Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

"Twenty Doctors" is the tito of pamphlet
published in London by a man who. from
1868 to 1885, was a cripple from rheumatic
gout He tried nineteen doctors and expert
mented with all the means of cure or relief
known to the profession. Then came No 20,
who put him on o tricycle.. He was in agony,
and some of the nineteen told him that he
would die. But No. 90 said, "stick," and he
stuck, and is now quite well. A good adver-
tisement for the tricycle. makers
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

There is talk of introducing a bill at the
next session of the Oregon legislature to re-
peal the law protecting the Chinese pheasants
shipped to this country by Judge o, N.
Denny. Both hunters and farmers have
grievances against the foreign birds, which,
they claim, are becoming pest. The former
claim that the Chinese pheasants have driven
all the native grouse and pheasants away,
and but few can be found where few years
ago they were as thick as crows in cornfield,
The farmers say they ilfest grain fields and
make short work of growing crops.-Cleve-
land Leader
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

A box of chattering young folks In the
Chestnut Street opera house, the other even-
ing, so annoyed Miss Ward, who was playing
in 1.-THE Queens Favorite," that she paused,
walked close to the box, and said in very sar-
castle tones: perhaps we are disturbing
these ladies and gentlemen. Shall we discon'
tinuer There was dead silence, and then
the play went on. There was no more chat
tering in that box that evening.-New York
Sim
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

At Apalachicola, Fla, is on exhibition a
curiosity in the shape of a sponge There are
fifteen prongs of hollow sponge reaching out
like the arms of devilfish in every conceiv-
able direction from the coned-shape natural
stand of coral upon which the main body Of
the sponge rests, and there are fine particles
of coral i'll each arm OF sucker, leading many
to suppose from its appearance that if left
alone these arms would eventually have petri-
fed and perhaps turned to coraL-Chicago
Timac
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

Two hunters from the Bad Lands, d. t.,
report that they discovered an immense gey-
ser of fire about 100 miles west Of Bismarck.
They say that tho flames came right out Of
the earth and rose at least 100 feet into the
air, and that the snow was melted for a quar-
ter of mile around the flame, 1t is claimed
that there are burning coal veins underlying
this section of the Bad Lands, and that they
account for this fire geysnr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

:. In the matter of lighthouse illumination
experiments appear 10 show that, while the
electric arc light is more absorbed in proper
.tion thamges or oillight, as it passes through
fog, still it's greater intensity enables it TO
penetate much further than those Tho
Berlin core carBohs, manufactured by Sic
mems, have been found TO operate best, tho
core being Of graphite. On the whole, in
syestieation thus far renders it apparent that,
for ordinary purposes of lighthouse illumina-
tiou, mineral oil possesses superior advan-
tages, and that for salient or prominently
projecting headlands and very powerful
lights electricity is superior. York
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I4ondnn,s JnhiIee Tower.

It is intended to construct large tower in
London in commemoration of the jubilee
year Of Queen Victoria's reign. This tower
is to be 440 feet high at the extreme top,
from which may be seen eight or nine coun-
ties. It will overlook every other structure
yet built in London. 1t is proposed to set the
structure at the top of Oxford street, where
the ground lies high-New York Sun
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
From Lobbyist to Porter.

Pinckney Robertson, bright mulatto,
who during reconstruction day in South Car
olina was power in politics there, and, while
lobbying at the state capital, held four diff
ferent clerkships, each one paying him Sc a
day, is now porter in Atlanta at 81 week.
New York Sun
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
Through a Snow Pile.

Up on the Elkhorn valley road, during the
big drifts of the late storm, an engineer says
he took a mile q minute shoot at huge snow
pile and dug hole through it without jar
ring his headlight. Stopping at the next sta
ton he found the engines front and sides
coated with blood and hair. An investiga-
ton showed that sixteen head of cattle had
been showed in and ten of them were killed.
Chicago Herald,
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clairvoyance Explained.

Many wise people have INDUCED in wiso
speculations as to how so-called hypnotic per-
sons are apparently able to see through
opaque objects. Scientist Burgson, who in
vestigated some boys who could read the
number of pare when book was held
open. but with the back toward them, came
to the conclusion that the subject saw tho
numbers reflected in his own eyes.--New
York Commercial Advertiser /.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06

A patent has been obtained by gentleman
of San Francisco for what is claimed to be
fire and collision proof railway car. 1t is
made wholly of iron and steel, and the
weight will range from sixteen to twenty
tons for ordinary passenger coaches, and
from twenty-five to twenty-five tons for
sleepers. The floor is single sheet of metal,
and the roof also single sheet. The beams
are of rolled steel.-Chicago Herald.